Books in Bed

“As a parent and a teacher, therefore, I argue for the continuance of books in an age marked by visual technology. There remains nothing like the feel of the book in the hand, nothing like the security offered by a book in the bed (an experience recorded in the West from at least the twelfth century).”

-Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, by Seth Lehrer, p. 16